Do You Ever Feel Like Giving Up

[Bythesea]

surely you either enjoy/love photography or you don't?

Not necessarily. There are pictures I see in my mind that I want to create, and using a camera is currently the best way I have of getting close to them. If I could do it another way that meant I could get closer to what I want to see then I would.

I don't use a camera just because I like using it. That's probably why I always seem to have very low shutter count cameras

 

[PMN]

I don't use a camera just because I like using it.

Fair point on the other bit you said but what I said had nothing whatsoever to do with liking using cameras, it had everything to do with loving photography.

 

[Bythesea]

What I said had nothing whatsoever to do with liking using cameras, it had everything to do with loving photography.

Fair enough - but the rest of my post shows why photography per se isn't that important to me.

 

[BintyMcFrazzles]

Of course - as an amateur there will always be times when the motivation seems to dry up - when that happens I simply do other things until it comes back - so far and over 60 years of photo taking - it always has.



That's when you get down to editing all the photos you took when it wasn't drab or dull or wet or windy - at least that's what I do - which is why I am slowly working through several thousand photographs I took last summer.
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Several thousand?!
I tend to edit mine on the day or a day or three afterwards.

Recently, I've been looking through older photos and seeing if I can do anything new and interesting with them that I've learned.




In winter, I do a lot of indoor still-life stuff. I do get in a rut, but I find things in the house, or bits and pieces that might make an interesting macro. Like screws, nails, lego, mouldy food(!), etc.

 

[Chipper]

Hi there. I didn't take pictures for a couple of years after the shock of my mother's death in 2001 but then it came back and now I cannot imagine my life without it. Even better, I stopped work in July so I can now work on my ARPS when the weather suits my project. I have often thought that it would be a very demanding job; when the show at NEC was called Focus, it seemed that I would always be in line waiting next to a professional photographer. And he (without fail it was a he) was always fed up, feeling stressed out and didn't seem to enjoy it, so it doesn't surprise me to read the post above.